It's long been fairly common knowledge and source of minor irony that O.J. Simpson was originally in the running to play the cyborg in The Terminator, only to be denied by director James Cameron who thought that Simpson was just ?too nice?.
Is his face red now.
But that didn’t stopped him from blabbing about it all over the TV recently, naturally.
Cameron himself has made little comment on this casting decision until his appearance on 60 Minutes on CBS this weekend. In a statement so massively inappropriate it probably caused severe bleeding to the eyes, nose, ears, brain and rectum of anyone watching, Cameron started kicking himself saying:
“I didn’t know O.J. Simpson. … I didn’t know that he was gonna go murder his wife later and become the real ‘Terminator.'”
We can only assume Cameron feels a massive dumbass for not using foreknowledge to change future events, like what Kyle Reese did.
Well double-dumbass on you Jim, because O.J. didn't even murder his wife at all! Probably. Well, he was never convicted in a criminal court. He was acquitted, which is next-best thing to actually being innocent.
Admittedly he is now serving 33 years in jail for a crime in Las Vegas with which he was charged with armed robbery, kidnapping, robbery, burglary, coercion and assault with a deadly weapon, so perhaps he's not exactly the stand-up guy Cameron first imagined.
Let's not mention the fact that he was recorded during the incident in question shouting ?Don’t let nobody out of this room. Mother fucker, you think you can steal my shit and sell it?? which really should carry a prison sentence all of it's own for being embarrassingly ?urban?. He was in Naked Gun for goodness sake.
O.J.?s reported response the day after these events? ?I thought what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas?. Honestly. Say it to yourself in the Terminator robot-voice.
Cameron probably made the right decision, and shouldn?t be so down on himself.
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